which Bismarck has given her. To that statesman has been
attributed the famous phrase: "Might makes right." As a matter of fact
Bismarck never said it, because he was unable to distinguish between
might and right; in his eyes right was simply that which is desired by
the strongest, that which is declared in the law imposed by the victor
upon the vanquished. His whole moral philosophy is summed up in that.
The Germany of the present knows no other. She also worships brute
force. And as she believes herself strongest she is entirely absorbed in
adoration of herself. Her energy has its origin in this pride. Her moral
force is only the confidence by which her material force inspires her.
That is to say, that here also she lives on her reserves, that she has
no means of revitalization. Long before England was blockading her
coasts she had blockaded herself, morally, by isolating herself from all
ideals capable of revivifying her.

Therefore she will see her strength and her courage worn out. But the
energy of our soldiers is linked to something which cannot be worn out,
to an ideal of justice and liberty. Time has no hold on us. To a force
nourished only by its own brutality we oppose one that seeks outside of
itself, above itself, a principle of life and of renewal. While the
former is little by little exhausted, the latter is constantly revived.
The former already is tottering, the latter remains unshaken. Be without
fear: the one will be destroyed by the other.

*France Through English Eyes*

With Rene Bazin's Appreciation.

_Referring to the article printed below, which appeared in The
London Times Literary Supplement of Oct. 1, and which the French
Government ordered to be read in all Parisian schools, M. Rene
Bazin writes in l'Echo de Paris:_

Is not this language admirable? What full and flowing phrases. They are
like a ship filled with grain sailing into port with her sails full.
Preserve them, these fugitive lines written by a neighbor, and read them
to your children. They will teach them the greatness of France and the
greatness of England.

The whole world recognizes two qualities in the Englishman: his bravery
and his common sense. We know that the Englishman is true to his given
word, and that even in the antipodes he never changes his habits. As I
write, the postman brings me a letter from the front, dated Oct. 17. The
cavalryman who sends it tells of our Allies. "We are fight